[GregTheGreat]

It is so hard to say who the most skilled drivers are. I talked to a lot of teams and got to "test drive" many other teams bots, in the pit areas. I realized that the more complecated the controls the harder to drive. I think that for those teams that used stackers and had unique drive systems that were complicated had a hard time being "skilled" at there driving. As many of us that keep close look at many of the events, you realize that simpler is often better driven, and often performs better.

Practice is another big important factor of being a driver. I know of teams that had there bot done in the first few weeks, and had several weeks left for driving practice. Our driver this year was a juinor that had not ever driven a match before. We worked all the way up to the last minute of the ship date, with very little driving practice. I would say that going into our first regional our driver had an hour of practice if that. We were planning on giving him real experence during the practice matched at our first regional, but due to "rebuild" of the robot that day, he never got the practice. He struggled through the first regional, but we still placed well. By the time of the Michigan Regional he knew what he was doing. We seeded #1 and did well during the elim's.

We seen that practice is necessary to win nationals, and that you need to be agressive out there (especally in this years game).

I think that to say who is the best or most skilled is almost impossible out of the hundered's of teams and different type's of robots. The way I see it, everyone who drives is the "most skilled", because they have beat out the rest of there team to get that position.

I wish everyone the best of luck at any of the invitational match's they are planning on attending. I hope to see all you guy's again next year.